Cross My Heart by Megan Collins

 

My thoughts

This review is a little hard for me to articulate. While I thoroughly enjoyed the second half of this book, the first half was not so great. I don't like books where there is texting and correspondence between people like the ones in this book from the National Donor registry. I understand it was an intrical part of the story. Maybe set the scene for at least two of the characters but I just don't usually finish that kind of book. I did however stick with this one and at almost the exact halfway mark, it picked up and took off. None stop thrills. 

I did figure out so much of what was going on and who was doing what but it did not take away from the book. I did not however grasp fully who the actual murderer was and that is quite unusual for me. While I suspected that person I never fully landed on her. 

A woman, Rosie Lachlan, gets a heart transplant and then finds out who her donor is. She is pulled into a lot of excitement when the donor's husband reaches out to her. Or answers when she reaches out to him. Rosie was a grown woman who came across as very childish in her correspondence with her donor's husband, Morgan Thorne. Morgan was an author and he also sounded pretty childish for his age. I did not like Morgan. I thought he was very shallow. Maybe he was suppose to be but to me he just didn't fit the part I was imagining for him. Rosie had lots of problems with exes it seems. She definitely needed some help mentally. Later in the book she did get physically stronger and good for her. She wanted to live. 

I didn't really like any of the characters in this book. Each played their part well but needed to grow up or be stated as younger than they were. Rosie runs the bridal shop that belongs to her mother. Morgan is an author. Rosie is like two people. She can't seem to let go of men when she falls in love. She has pulled some pretty crazy stunts that always backfire on her. Morgan seems to be writing about other people's tragedies. While I understand that authors do that, he writes about people he claims to love's tragedies. People that he should not be writing about. It's certainly not helping them.

While I devoured the second half of this book, the first half had me questioning whether to continue. I will say that a lot of people love this type of book. It's just me in this case. I do not. Though I did keep going and ended up loving it, that first half made it lose part of the appeal I get from great thrillers. This author writes excellent books but to me this one fell short a bit.

I have to ask.... To what end would you go for the person you loved? Would you kill for them? Would you cross lines for them? Or would you accept defeat and move on?

Thank you #NetGalley, #AtriaBooks, for this ARC. 

3 stars

About

She has his dead wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband.

Rosie Lachlan wants nothing more than to find The One.

A year after she was dumped in her wedding dress, she’s working at her parents’ bridal salon, anxious for a happy ending that can’t come soon enough. After receiving a life-saving heart transplant, Rosie knows her health is precious and precarious. She suspects her heart donor is Daphne Thorne, the wife of local celebrity author Morgan Thorne, who she begins messaging via an anonymous service called DonorConnect, ostensibly to learn more about Daphne. But Rosie has a secret: She’s convinced that now that she has his wife’s heart, she and Morgan are meant to be together.

As she and Morgan correspond, the pretense of avoiding personal details soon disappears, even if Rosie’s keeping some cards close to her chest. But as she digs deeper into Morgan’s previous marriage, she discovers disturbing rumors about the man she’s falling for. Could Morgan have had something to do with his late wife’s death? And can Rosie’s heart sustain another break—or is she next?